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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Oil Reserves

U.S. Oil Stockspiles Increase More Than Expected

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 11:23 am

Today's EIA Petroleum Status Report for last week shows oil inventories to have grown 1.8 million barrels.  Many analysts expected the number to have grown by 1 million barrels.  Oil ...
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Corzine as Bank of America CEO? (GS, BAC)

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 10:28 am

Jon Corzine recently lost the gubernatorial race in New Jersey.  He is also a very wealthy Wall Streeter that is a former disciple of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS).  ...
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Corel & Vector: From Strange to Stranger (CREL)

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 9:50 am

[ We had already commented on hoe the merger offer for Corel Corp. (NASDAQ: CREL) from majority owner Vector Capital might be the strangest merger paths of this decade.  The ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BRCD, COMS, GMCR, DRYS, AMD, JDSU)

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 9:16 am

These are this morning's top day trader and active trader alerts on high price moves and/or high volume.  We have a link to more data and analysis at VSInvestor.com for ...
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Intel (INTC) Bribes AMD (AMD) To Settle Antitrust Issues

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 9:11 am

AMD (NYSE:AMD) has had a pretty strong antitrust claim against Intel (NASDAQ:INTC). Intel allegedly gave money to PC companies to use its chips and bullied customers using it huge market ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/12/2009) (VZ)(EBAY)(SBUX)

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 8:59 am

Updated throughout the day. Ebay (NASDAQ:EBAY) PayPal profits will increase sharply in Q4. (TheStreet) A former lead director at Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is pushing for the firm to pick an insider ...
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Jobless Claims Try to Break 500K

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 8:35 am

The Labor Department has just reported its weekly jobless claims data.  The new preliminary report puts last week's initial jobless claims at 502,000, down 12,000 on an adjusted basis from ...
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Amazon (AMZN) Launches Free Kindle Software For PC

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 8:29 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre There is a new product on the home page of Amazon.com (NYSE:AMZN). PC users can now download a free version of Kindle software which allows Kindle ...
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“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ Blows Records Away (ATVI, GME, MSFT)

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 8:28 am

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) may actually hit that $500 million first week target after all.  The company has announced this morning that since the 12:00 launch on Tuesday that ...
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The Death of Birth Is Not a Worry

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 8:25 am

By John Tamny of Forbes "For one particular car produced by an American manufacturer, for example, 30 percent of the car's value is due to assembly in Korea, 17.5 percent ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (BRCD, BNI, COH, CHK, CSX, HOG, KWK, MBT, NDAQ, SIRI)

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 7:52 am

These are this Thursday's top early analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research calls which may be moving shares of the underlying stocks: Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD) Cut ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT): It’s Beginning To Look At Lot Like Christmas

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 7:43 am

Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) beat Wall St. expectations for earnings and revenue. Perhaps more important, it indicated that the fourth quarter would be OK. The Christmas retail season just began to look ...
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Bill Gates Says Wall St. Pay Is Too High

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 6:21 am

Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world and the founder of one of the most successful companies ever created. That means that the media hangs on ...
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IEA Says Rising Energy Prices Could Smother Recovery

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 6:04 am

The International Energy Agency not only raised its forecast for oil demand this year but also said that rising oil prices could cut off the global economic recovery. According to the ...
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Applied Materials (AMAT): We Made Money But You’re Fired

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 5:48 am

Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) can be added to the long list of American companies that made a profit in the last quarter and then fired a significant part of their workforces. It is a ...
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